[ConfirmShutdown] Powershell function that manually waits for machine to power off. #powershell

ConfirmShutdown.ps1

function ConfirmShutdown($VM) {
  $TimeOut = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 5
  $StopWatch = [diagnostics.stopwatch]::StartNew()
  while ($StopWatch.elapsed -lt $TimeOut) {
    $VM = Get-VM -name $VM
    if ($VM.PowerState -eq 'PoweredOff') {
      write-host 'Cool'
      return
    }
    for ($i=0; $i -le 4; $i++) {
      write-host -NoNewline '.'
      start-sleep -seconds 1
    }
  }
  write-warning "Timeout error on shutdown of $VM"
}